Pen holding and releasing device.



PA TENTED JULY 3, 1906; J. O. & H. E. DODGE.

PEN HOLDING AND RELEASING DEVICE APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8, 1906.

INVENTORS. JAMES 0. DQQGE ATTORNEYS riTE STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES OSBORNE DODGE AND HERBERT EGBERT DODGE, OF WILLIAMS, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed February 8,1906. Serial No. 300,067.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES OSBORNE DODGE and HERBERT EGBERT DODGE, citizens of the United States, and residents of IVilliams, in the county of Ooconino and Territory of Arizona, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen-Holding and Releasing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in penholders, and has for its object to produce a penholder in which the pen can be quickly removed from the holder when desired without soiling the fingers, as is common to the ordinary penholder.

Our invention, therefore, consists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as will be herein after fully described, and pointed out in the claims, reference bein had to the accompanying drawings, in whi1 Figure 1 is a plan view of a penholder embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical central lon itudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a sim' ar view showing a modified form of device.

In carrying out our invention we use the ferrule A, which is of the usual form, except that it has a cut-out portion or slot a in its upper part at the point where the reduced front end of the body portion or handle B of the holder lies. Within the ferrule, near its front end, a light spring O is secured at its lower end to the inner surface of the ferrule A and extends outwardly and upwardly, its upper end 0 forming a horizontal curve.

E represents a pen held in the holder by the spring O, pressing upwardly against the lower surface of the same, causing the pen to have a rigid bearing at as and y, the latter being w ere the rear end of the pen rests upon the reduced front end of the wooden body portion B of the holder. The said reduced front end of the body B has a portion of its upper face out below the level of the remainder of the same, forming a shoulder b to prevent the pen being pushed too far into the ferrule of the holder, and also to form a rigid or firm bearing for the rear edge of the en.

It will be seen that the pen as two rigid bearings, as at w and y, and one yielding or spring bearing, and that by relieving the pressure on the pen at the point of spring-bearin as at c, the pen will then fall out of the fer e of the holder by gravity. As the two rigid bearings must necessarily be in the same relative positions and the spring press lightly against the pen to cause the pen to bear at two such rigid bearings, it is obvious that the spring maybe attached to any rigid portion of the ferrule or holder. Thus the spring may be placed as illustrated in Fig. 3, wherein is shown the spring O, secured at one end to the ferrule of the holder at the rear of the slot or opening a and pressing ti htly on the pen at its extreme rear end, whic will cause said pen to bear rigidly and firmly against the reduced forward end of the holder and rigidly and firmly a ainst the inner surface of the ferrule at 01;. f now pressure is applied to the outside of the pen E at the point e, the inner end of the pen will slip past the spring C, whereupon the pen will drop out of the ferrule of the holder by ravity.

While we have shown t e ferrule A with the cut-out portion a, yet we may accomplish the same results by forming simply a recess at this point, the object of such opening or recess being to relieve the pen of anyrigid pressure at this point.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a penholder, the combination with the stub or forward end of same, of a ferrule encircling said stub, a rigid bearing-point within the ferrule and a rigid bearing-point on the stub, said rigid bearing-points being longitudinally separated, and a single yielding or spring bearing located longitudinally beyond said ri id bearing-points.

2. In a pe older, the combination with the stub or forward end of same of aferrul encirclin the same, a rigid bearing-point within the errule and a rigld bearing-point on the stub, said rigid bearings being longitudinally separated, and a yielding member secured at one end to the ferrule and adapted to bear at its free end against a pen-body secured between the ferrule and stub to cause the penbody to be firmly seated against the aforesaid ri id bearings, whereby releasing pressure 0 the yielding member will cause the pen to be released from the ferrule by gravity.

3. A pen holding and releasing device consisting of a stub and a ferrule encircling said stub to receive the pen, a rigid bearing-point within said ferrule near its forward end said ferrule having a cut-out portion in its upper wall, a rigid bearing-point on the stub beneath said cut-out portion and adjacent thereto, and a yielding spring member secured at one end to a rigid portion of the ferrule, and adapted to bear at its free end on a pen inserted in said ferrule to cause the pen to have a rigid hearing at two points within the ferrule whereby releasing pressure of the yielding spring against the pen Will cause the pen to be released from the ferrule by gravity.

4. A pen holding and releasing device consistingof a body or handle portion having a reduced forward or stub end, a ferrule fitted on the stub end of said handle, said ferrule having a cut-out portion or slot in its upper wall adjacent to the stub end of said handle, and a yielding spring membersecured at its lower end within the ferrule and adapted to bear at its free upper end against the lower face of a pen inserted in said ferrule, whereby releasing pressure of the free end of the spring member will cause the release of the pen from the ferrule by gravity.

JAMES OSBORNE DODGE. HERBERT EGBERT DODGE.

Witnesses:

G. W. JAKLE, O. C. HULL. 

